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Psalm 14:4

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“Don't they know?” asks the Lord. “Are all these evildoers ignorant? They live by robbing my people, and they never pray to me.”

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They think there is no need to serve God nor any advantage in praying to him.

They should have desired the joy he gives; they should have constantly prayed to him.

When evil people attack me and try to kill me, they stumble and fall.

Turn your anger on the nations that do not worship you, on the people who do not pray to you.

“How ignorant you are! How stupid! You are completely corrupt, and justice has disappeared from the world.

There are people who take cruel advantage of the poor and needy; that is the way they make their living.

The branches of the trees are withered and broken, and women gather them for firewood. Because the people have understood nothing, God their Creator will not pity them or show them any mercy.

So I will startle them with one unexpected blow after another. Those who are wise will turn out to be fools, and all their cleverness will be useless.”

The Lord says, “Come together, people of the nations, all who survive the fall of the empire; present yourselves for the trial! The people who parade with their idols of wood and pray to gods that cannot save them— those people know nothing at all!

and so you will be carried away as prisoners. Your leaders will starve to death, and the common people will die of thirst.

All of us have been sinful; even our best actions are filthy through and through. Because of our sins we are like leaves that wither and are blown away by the wind.

No one turns to you in prayer; no one goes to you for help. You have hidden yourself from us and have abandoned us because of our sins.

Turn your anger on the nations that do not worship you and on the people who reject you. They have killed your people; they have destroyed us completely and left our country in ruins.

“In the heat of their anger they murdered their rulers. Their kings have been assassinated one after another, but no one prays to me for help.”

Listen to this, you that trample on the needy and try to destroy the poor of the country.

Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do.

But if you act like wild animals, hurting and harming each other, then watch out, or you will completely destroy one another.




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